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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:25 pm    Post subject: is gentoo your main OS? Reply with quote

i have XP as my main and gentoo as my secondary what about you guys?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Windows XP is installed on my computer, but I've been running just Gentoo for months now without booting into Windows.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WHAT ELSE ???
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My PC is Gentoo dedicated, but my family has a XP Home machine they use. And of course, my firewall is Gentoo too.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a notebook and a desktop that only have gentoo on them, and a family system that has XP.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gentoo is definetly my main.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like variety: Gentoo for my amd64 desktop (mostly because of portage), DragonFly BSD for my Dual PII fileserver (I was using FreeBSD 4, to which DragonFly is supposed to be the "logical" successor) , OpenBSD for my router (PF and "secure by default" design), and my Compaq P4 laptop is my test machine, so it's currently running FreeBSD (wanted to see how 5.x was coming along), Solaris (newly open-source commercial UNIX), and OSX (yes, I'm serious).

EDIT: my laptop now runs only Nexenta, however I want to run SchilliX on my fileserver to use ZFS, in which case I'd probably switch my laptop to one of the BSDs


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gentoo for everything. I have a Windows XP Partition for the rare occasions when games don't work in Linux (BF2 while I tried it; Steam right now until I renew my Cedega subscription to get a copy of Cedega 4.4.1)
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only true OS I have is Gentoo.

I run MS-DOS, Win98, Win2K, WinXP, Win Server 2003, OS X (intel build) all in VMware though.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey There,

At home gentoo is may main and at work fedora is my workstation.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to run windows, but got tired of DRM. I have a deep and abiding hatred for the muck.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aynjell wrote:
I used to run windows, but got tired of DRM. I have a deep and abiding hatred for the muck.

And fair enough too!

The constant stream of EULA's, CD keys and requests for more money got too much for me. After a while it felt like the computer was just letting me use it for a while - which isn't a nice feeling after shelling out all the money on the damn thing!

Seeing XP Service Pack 2 complaining about my computer being 'unsafe' was really the last straw; if I pay hundreds of dollars for a piece of software it should f##king work, not tell me I need to pay their associates more money to make it work.

So I left. Linux works better at most things anyway :-)
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

After getting things setup properly, it really does. I've found that the following setup hits the spot:

FS: Reiser4 (root), reiser3 (boot), xfs (storage)
Device Interfaces: Udev (Hald and Ivman)
Kernel: Morph Sources 2.6.12 (morph 7)
Desktop: XFCE4 + Gnome Services (Gconf makes life 10 times easier)
Media Player: Rhythmbox (How I found out about gconf's abilities)

Then I can game all day long on teh system in my signature, and I never have any stress. I'm currently looking into setting up X right on boot, but that has proven to be troublesome... Right now GDM isn't accepting xinit stuff (xmodmaps required for my mouse). SO my desktop isn't perfect yet, still don't have a file manager, and seeing as how I dislike rox, I won't until thunar.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i can't afford Windows, so its gentoo for me. I got a student copy a long time ago for $10, but that has gone to my brother. I have a Mac laying around, and it has osx on it(albeit 10.1.4) but as soon as thats put back together, its getting gentoo aswell. since the only things i use a computer for are briowsing, chatting, music and learning programming skills, windows got innadequate fairly quickly, and since i am too lazy and frugal to update to panther/jaguear/large cat, none of the current osx stuff works for me, so whats the point.

i used reason (by propeller heads) for a long time (the reason i have a mac), but it is too much of a hassle now to dual boot. any one want to buy it? its reason 2.0 (i can give you the 2.5 upgrade).
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

shickapooka800 wrote:
panther/jaguear/large cat


The naming convention got old quick, didn't it?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gentoo GNU/Linux is my only OS, therefor my main
Is there any others :twisted:
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

geniux wrote:
Gentoo GNU/Linux is my only OS, therefor my main
Is there any others :twisted:


Well, there are others, but none of them have portage... so they aren't usable. And aren't operating systems supposed to increase productivity?

*runs from the fedora/suse/debian/ubuntu/arch users*
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know what to say. I have an AMD64 with Gentoo that does the main computational tasks in my home, however I do most surfing, chatting and emailing on my Mac with OS X Tiger, but it does have portage, so does that count?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In terms of my master boot record and devices, Windows would be my primary -- only because installed on a 100GB /dev/hda and Gentoo is on a 80GB /dev/hdb.

I haven't booted into Windows for ages, and even then it was likely me fatfingering during the GRUB boot-up process. :lol:
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I only have Gentoo... for over a year now.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My machine nad firewall is only Gentoo while my parents machines are win/gentoo dual boot...
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My only desktop system is Gentoo. I have it installed on the laptop too, and nothing else. My sister has windows xp installed, but I told her as soon as she gets connected to the house ethernet LAN, she will have linux on her desktop (I don't know which one, maybe gentoo). My father unfortunately cannot run away from windows xp, on his desktop and on his laptop, and maybe he wouldn't want to do it too. Anyway, the house LAN has an adsl connection, and the modem is on my gentoo machine of course, with 4 pcs connected to it, and works very good with all this traffic.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Currently not my main os (Fedora Core 4 is). But I'm about to ditch it for Gentoo.
There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth setting it up origonally but now it's there I love it. Well worth the effort!

Ditched windows 10 months ago and have never looked back!!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have Gentoo and Windows 98 on a dual boot desktop.
I use Windows once a year for my tax returns.If the tax people
would install a *nix program that could run on Gentoo I would
get rid of Windows.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

PC: FreeBSD
Laptop:Gentoo
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